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TRACK AND FIELD: College of the Canyons’ Tim White, Hart graduate, soars to nation’s leading 2-year college triple jump effort

Although College of the Canyons triple jumper Tim White had to settle for a silver medal Sunday at the Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships in Medellin, Colombia, he wound up producing the nation’s best mark this year for all two-year college athletes.

White, a Hart graduate, leaped a personal-best 54 feet, 1 1/4 inches on his final jump to tie Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez for first place.

Martinez held the tiebreaker for the better second jump by a 53-9 to 53-5 1/2 margin.

But White’s effort was more than enough to surpass Latario Collie-Minns as the two-year college national leader. Collie-Minns, competing for Iowa Western Community College, won the National Junior College Athletic Association title in May with a leap of 53-10 1/2 in Hutchinson, Kan.

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